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The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself. — Harriet Lerner

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me. — Harriet Tubman

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife. — Harriet Lerner

The temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well. — Harriet Harman

I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them. — Harriet Jacobs

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet — Harriet Lerner

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau

I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all. — Holly Smale

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Humankind above all is lazy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers. — Harriet Lerner

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely. — Harriet Lerner

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm. — Harriet Lerner

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures. — Harriet McBryde Johnson

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions - anxiety, fear, and shame. — Harriet Lerner

Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal. — Harriet Lerner

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words. — Harriet Lerner

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care. — Harriet Harman

My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. — Harriet Jacobs

God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins. — Harriet Jacobs

Leading the party is a privilege not a right. — Harriet Harman

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader. — Harriet Harman

We all fear change, even as we seek it. — Harriet Lerner

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. — Harriet Martineau

Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis. — Harriet Lerner

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. — Alice Walker

I want to be happy. To make someone else happy. To do my job well, be a good person — Harriet Evans

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done. — Harriet Lerner

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ... — Harriet Martineau

Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. — Harriet Martineau

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends
and his. — Harriet Lerner

Human nature is above all things lazy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy ... — Harriet Monroe

the best revenge is being free! — Harriet Showman

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome. — Mary Allsebrook

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The heart has no tears to give,
it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience. — Harriet Rubin

She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses. — Dorothy L. Sayers

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same. — Harriet Lerner

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

Over time, I've come to see that so much of a personality boils down to confidence: whether you have it, or not. — Harriet Lane

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion? — Louise Fitzhugh

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did. — Harriet Tubman

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they — Harriet Jacobs

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

i made myself be still - impenetrable, boring - which deprived them of their sport. — Harriet Showman

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need. — Harriet Lerner

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. — Stokely Carmichael

to render me miserable. He — Harriet Jacobs

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. — Harriet Tubman

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness. — Harriet Lerner

If moms aren't entertaining, they're pains in the ass. And you can quote me on this. — Harriet Showman

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them. — Harriet Rubin

Samantha : Doesn't seem like you can believe in much anymore.
Hitchhiker: You can believe in yourself. ..If you're lucky. — Harriet Grey

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy. — Harriet Morgan

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals. — Harriet Lerner

If you turn people away enough times, eventually they stop trying to find you. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Freedom is about what you can unleash. — Harriet Rubin

Love is blind," Harriet quipped.
"But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted. — Julia Quinn

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. — Eva Ibbotson

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord. — Harriet Tubman

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. — Harriet Martineau

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all. — Harriet Martineau

I like the idea of being with someone forever, being married to them. — Harriet Evans

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation. — Harriet Lerner

She had been adamant, that she had not believed — Harriet Smart

You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it. — Harriet Doerr

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics. — Harriet Lerner

All men are free and equal, in the grave, — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient. — Harriet Evans

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

Would that I had more ability! But my heart is so full, and my pen is so weak! — Harriet Jacobs

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.' — Harriet Tubman